The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-05

Frank Wells OF Black Lick, Pa, was ar
rested in Kansas on charge Of murder
ing City Marshal Stingley. Wells says he
is innocent.
Fred Stole, arrested in Cleveland for the
murder Of Maggie Mccarthy, has been dis
charged from custody, having proved his
innocence.
At Rockford, ILL.,, April % Edward Jare
bek, cook at hotel, shot himself through
the heart because Ella May Gaspama, q
waiter 81 ri had refused to marry him. The
body was sent to Plymouth, Iowa, for
burial.
The preliminary examination Of E. T. II
Simons, late manager OF the Hotel Del
Monte, charged with having set the Hotel
on fire, was concluded at Monterey, Cal.
and he held in $25,OO0 bail.
Some unknown villain knocked down a
newspaper carrier in Altoona, Pa, the
other morning, took away his papers
lighted box Of matches, threw the papers
on them, and then hurried away. Most of
the papers were recovered but q reward of
SO for the arrest OF the man has been
offered.
On the 25th Mrs Christina Openhof visited
Mrs. linen, neighbor at Fontanette, near
Terre Haute, Ind, and while there fooled
with revolver. The weapon went off,
striking Mrs. linen I'm the abdomen. She
would have become q mother in few days.
The child was born dead with a bullet hole
through its head. The mother also died.
At Cleveland, Ohio, on the 27th, Fred
Stoll, q young baker, was arrested, charged
with outraging and numbering Maggie Nc
Carthy, whose dea,. body was found Satur.
day night. Stolls person bears numerous
scratches and bruises, and his clothes are
bloody. He claims that he was drunk Sat.
urday night and has no recollection Of what
occurred, except that he fell on the pave
ment
A Southern Pacific mail train was stopped
on the night OF April Is, at Papago station
near Tuckson, Arizona, by five to eight
train robbers, who detached the mail and
| the balance OF the train. The robbers got
$o,OOO express money and $l,70O, railroad
money and whatever there was in the mai
they overhauled. The express messenger
saved $5OO from robbers by hastily putting
| 1t in the stove.
Joshua Boxer, en- route from Idaho tc
Alabama, was arrested at Chicago on the
23rd, charged with being mormon. Hi
| had three women and eight children with
him, and gave bail for $SOO Baker was ar
rested in 1865, and tried before the United
States court for polygainy. He was then
sentenced to three months imprisonment
three women for his lawful wife, and hs
| chose the first, and married Jane w. Baker
He states the court told him that he should
provide for the other two, Emma Newitl
and Eliza johnson, and this he says he la.
continued to do.
At Wilkesbarre. Pa, /. w. Dewitt, .
prominent lawyer went to the law Office ol
of Geo. b. Kulp, on the 23rd, and without
any warning presented pistol at the lat
| ter,s head, remarking: "PIepare to die.
kulp arose quickly and grappled with hi.
assailant, who in the scuffie that ensued
fired . shot. The ball passed through
kulp's coat near the shoulder. without
| however, leaving q scratch on his person
The assassin hurried from the Office, but
| was arrested soon after and taken to prison
| II is understood that Dewitt has made
threats against several well-knOwn LAWYER.
and members Of the Luzerne County Bar
Association without any apparent reason
he - thought to be insane.
The United States secret service officers
late Saturday night arrested two women
| Mrs. Annie Kelley and Miss Ellen Barrett
| who have been engaged in counterfeitinp
| silver coins for nulHber of months at New
York City. The officers caught the women
at their work and captured thirteen plaster
Of Paris molds, files, melting kettles, meta
and l6S counterfeit dollars. The Kelley
woman is the wife of the notorious George
Kelley, the counterfeiter, who is supposed
to be in Paris The Barrett woman is 81
| years Of age, and is Mrs. Kelley's sister
When arranged before United States Com
missioner Shields they did not deny theil
guilt. Mrs Kelley said that she had been
making the counterfeits for months and
| had been showing them among the
| Italians. She has two children, q boy
| and girl IL years Of age. United States
Commissioner Shields held Mrs. Kelley and
Miss Barrett in 5000 bail each for ex
animation.